How To Install wamerican on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican on Kali Linux.

What is wamerican

wamerican is:

This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).

There are also -small, -large, and -huge versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.

There are three methods to install wamerican on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wamerican Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wamerican using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wamerican

Install wamerican Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wamerican using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wamerican

Install wamerican Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wamerican using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wamerican

How To Uninstall wamerican on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wamerican package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wamerican

Uninstall wamerican And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wamerican and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican

Remove wamerican Configurations and Data

To remove wamerican configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican

Remove wamerican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wamerican configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican

Dependencies

wamerican have the following dependencies:

• debconf

References

• wamerican website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.